The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1887-05-13
FlEND FASHION.
A Few Notes About the Wear of Woman
kind.

Especial correspondence
NEW York, May 2.
Pretty women are wearing red--iei.y red
illusion bonnets this spring, and it would he
impossible to tell how becoming these bonnets
are. In shape they peak up in front, and have
no trimmings but red wings and knots and
fans of red illusion For evening wear they
are perfectly irresistible; but they are also
worn in the day on the promenade and for
driving. Last year they were greatly in
vogue in Paris. Blondes and brunettes alike
find them becoming With black or light
toilet they are extremely beautiful Clever
women who have time and taste can make
their own Black illusion bonuets are also
much in favor, and are always pretty and ap-
propriate.
Another Partisan fancy oA tasN summer
has arrived here, and is ata2tsingn very veil.
That is street gowns of old fashioned alpaca
or brifliantine. They call it mohair now,
and import it in brands as fine and beautiful
as silk. 1t makes an eminently useful and
very refined order Of outdoor dress of an un-
pretentious character. It sheds dust, keeps
unwrinkled, and, if made up with soft, thin
waist lining, is very COOL
Flowers were never displayed in such
beauty and profusion, and never were so
much worn by young and old. All the bon
nets are trimmed high, straight in front.
Great branches of flowers and wild weeds
and tangled things overtop women's faces,
reaching high into space. As usual they are
of every shape, but the ones peaked up in
front are most in demand, being most beconl-
ing to most faces.
Black straw hats are trimmed in colors this
season. Not always, of course, but oftener
than with black, and with most coquettish
effect The more colors on one bonnet this
spring the happier the wearer. Dark blood
red, stone color or pale ecru, with dark green,
or green and pink both, are combined in
geniously and effectively. Ladies who trim
their own headgear go about buying scrap
of this and scrap of that until their collec-
tion embraces as great a variety as grand
mothers work bag. Surahs, black and in
colors, never were so eminently in style as
now. Their season is the summer They are
cool. appropriate and always becoming
They are found in plain and with striped ones
FOR combination purposes, and are being
bought up with almost fierce haste
Wash goods are bewilderingly beautiful
and becoming more stylish all the time. For
house gowns they are far prettier than any
thing else in summer, and for street wear
many of them are unsurpassed in beauty and
appropriateness. Soft French materials, and
linens in beautiful colors that for delicacy
rival silk, are plentiful and attract buyers by
the score.
Short jackets are the favorite general wrap
for sturdy street use. For more dressy oc-
casions beaded things of extravagant price
are displayed-very lovely Partisan inven-
tions are they. but quite beyond the reach of
the mass of womankind who are anxious to
look well. -.
Hats are high crowned and sometimes wide
b,inmed. Most of them are not pretty.
Beauty in millinery all runs to bonnets.
Bonnets are ever New York institution.
Most Indies are never seen in hats. They are
relegate,l to the shop girls and business
women. who must throw on their headwear
hurrie,lly, to very young girls, and are also
bought for country wear by city folk and
country folk, too. NAOMI TRENT.